Accidental Ambivalence

The Storm: Update

I've dubbed the weather of the next few days "The Storm", and I thought I would be so kind as to share an update with you.

When I posted last night, it was raining. Soon after, the rain turned into a "wintry mix."* I was hopeful for the icing to begin and classes to be cancelled across the university.

No such luck.

When I got up at 8:30, I checked my email while watching the school closings scroll across the screen. Small Town. Quasi-suburbs surrounding College Town. All schools in the College Town district. I decided that those people knew what they were doing and skipped the 9:30 class in favor of my warm, cozy bed.

I kept re-setting the snooze on my phone, thinking to myself that it was a bad idea for some reason, but not knowing why. When I finally got up at 10:30, I realized: I had class at 11 and a fifteen minute walk ahead of me. Fuck.

With the makeup finished and five minutes to spare, I went into my room to get dressed. I suddenly heard tiny little "tap taps" on my window. I looked. Sleet. The "wintry mix" had changed to straight-up sleet (or freezing rain, if you will).*

Fuck class, I'm not walking in that! I'm now sitting comfortably at my desk sipping a cup of coffee and eating a lightly-warmed apple cranberry muffin. My plans for the day: Watch Center Stage, finish decorating my apartment, maybe put away the boxes. Eat soup. Drink copious amounts of delicious coffee.

I love snow days. More updates coming as the world outside my window becomes more wonderland-like and less like a slick, disgusting mess.

*Thanks to weather.com for all the appropriate terms for the stuff falling out of the sky.

Labels: updates, weather

posted by nicalyse @ 10:58 AM